Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-12-26
AN EVENTFUL CAREER.
A sketch of EN-Secretary of the Treasury
Daniel Manning's Life.

A sketch of EN-Secretary of the Treasury
Daniel Manning's Life.
Mr. Manning was born in 1881, and is
therefore, nearly 81 years of age. He is a
native Of Albany, N. Y, where he has al
ways lived until he came TO the capital,
and he is descended from some Of that
Irish English stock, which has given Amer
lea most of her distinguished politicians
and business men. Both in the habits OF
his body and mind he combines the char
acteristics of energy and persistenCy OF
his pioneer ancestry. He did not have the
questionable advantages of collegiate ed
ucaton, but what he missed in schooling
he made up by observation and experience
in the various walks of life
which he has Ornamented. When but IL
years old he began life as a printers
"deviW in the offie of the Albany AtidS,
which paper was soon merged into the
present Argus. 1t has been said that
n. wspaper office is one of the best of train
ing schools for boys. Bnt first show me
your boy. Some it will make and some ii
will ruin, with the advantage on the side
of the latter issue But Manning thrived
on printers ink, and year after year, in one
or another capacity, he worked on the
1rgus until at II he acquired the executive
proprietorship. The management, how
ever, has for some years been in the hands
of his eldss: son, James Hilton Manning,
who bids fair to follow in the footsteps of
his illustriOus father.
But il was not only as a journalist and
newspaper proprietor that Mr.. Manning
gained such distinction and wealth. He
was the politician of Cleveland'5 Cabinet
and was reared in that Albany school OF
politics from which graduated some Of
New Yorks public men. He represented
his district in the Legislature and there
built up his influence in State party af-
fairs. lie vas instrumental in the nomi-
nation OF Samuel j. Tilden TO the Govern
oyship in 1874, and was member OF every
Democratic State Convention down to the
nomination of Grover Cleveland rs Gov
ernor of New York. From 1880 to 1854
he was Chairman Of the State Committee,
and was in the convention which nomiua
ted Tilden in 1916, Hancock in 1880
and Cleveland in 1884 He conducted the
Cleveland Campaign in New York, and in
the control of State politics he succeeded
Samuel ]. Tilden as the leader OF the
leaders.
Until his protracted illness Mr., Manning
hal little OF what might be called home
life. When he resided in Albany he spent
the DAYS between the Presidents desk OF
the Commercial Bank and the office Of his
newspaper, and even when he had climbed
the hill 10 his pleasant residence on Wash
fhuton avenue, he had few moments to
give to his family circle. He was one of
the most approachable Of men, and he was
always ready to give a hearing to the
humblest of his political friends. lie
burnt the midnight oil relentlessly, but
gradually he was sowing the seeds of that
dread disease that was so suddenly to
strike him down. He had a strong con-
stitution, but like many another man he
thought it stronger than it was, In par
alysis medical aid is unavailing and extra
neous eympathy does not count. But rs
busy "a lie was in Albany he found him
self when he went to Washington, in au
unaccustomed position, with a pressure
for appointments which much stronger
man could not have withstood. Instead
of leaving work for his subOrdinates, he
tried to use his Albany methods; he tried
to do too much. Very naturally he broke
down, and this is the end.